2026
Consortium works with bacterial-derived bioplastic: a material that carries a life history within it. What stands before us is the transformed body of billions of living organisms, their lives extracted, processed, and cast into a new material form. Soil, compost, and organic matter are introduced onto this surface, after which the work is gradually transformed by the microorganisms that inhabit these environments. The artist initiates the process, but does not control its outcome. As microbial life continues to erode, rewrite, and reshape the material, authorship becomes shared across species.
The work understands life not as something with a clear beginning or end, but as a continuous process of transformation between different material forms. The artist's intervention is only one brief moment within this cycle. Human intention, microbial activity, environmental conditions, and time all become participants in the making of the work. The artist is not positioned at the centre, but as one participant within a larger living consortium.